Computer Applications

Course Schedule

Basic AutoCAD 2006: (24 hrs)

This course is designed to introduce the students to obtaining a working knowledge of AutoCAD 2006. Topics include how to create new drawings, display commands, and learn coordinates and basic drawing commands. By the end of this course, students should be able to produce and plot a CAD drawing.

Course Code: DFT 3100 01P
Dates/Days: March, 18, 2010 - May, 06, 2010 (Th)
Course Times: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Elsee Building 110
Instructor: A. Penny
Registration Fee: $68 (includes $3 tech fee)
Book: ISBN: 0-13-171388-4

Basic Excel 2003 (24 hrs)

This course teaches the basic functions and features of Excel 2003. Students will learn how to enter and edit data, labels, and formulas, work with functions, format cells, print worksheets, and create charts. This course would be an excellent refresher course for anyone who needs to brush up their Excel skills.

Course Code: CAS 3050 05P
Dates/Days: March, 30, 2010 - May, 11, 2010 (T)
Course Times: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Kenly Center 003
Instructor: M. Badgett
Registration Fee: $68 (includes $3 tech fee)
Book: optional but helpful: 1-4188-8936-9

Basic Excel 2007 (18 hrs)

This course teaches the basic functions and features of Excel 2003. Students will learn how to enter and edit data, labels, and formulas, work with functions, format cells, print worksheets, and create charts. This course would be a excellent refresher course for anyone who needs to brush up their Excel skills.

Course Code: CAS 3050 01P
Dates/Days: March, 19, 2010 - April, 30, 2010 (F)
Course Times: 9:00am - 11:00am
Location: Elsee Building 164
Instructor: P. Parrish
Registration Fee: $68 (includes $3 tech fee)
Book: No book required
Note: No class on 4/2/10

Discover Digital Photography: (30hrs)

This introduction to digital photography will provide training instructions on the use of the digital camera.
Learn the fundamentals of digital photography. Download and manipulate digital photos into the free Picasa and Picnik applications. Prerequisites: ownership and/or access to a digital still camera, basic computer skills, and Microsoft Windows knowledge.

Course Code: CAS 3060 03P
Dates/Days: January, 27, 2010 - March, 31, 2010 (W)
Course Times: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Elsee Building 110
Instructor: D. Stephenson
Registration Fee: $123 (includes $3 tech fee)
Book: Not required

Federal Income Tax Prep(16 hrs)

Learn how to prepare federal income tax returns. This class will provide an overview of Federal Income tax preparation and tax laws. All forms will be downloaded from the Internet during class exercises.

Course Code: CAS 3080 01P
Dates/Days: March, 02, 2010 - April, 20, 2010 (T)
Course Times: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Elsee Building A110
Instructor: G. Parrish
Registration Fee: $67 (includes $2 tech fee)
Book: Not required

How to Buy and Sell on EBay (18 hrs)

Learn how to become a buyer or seller and earn extra income by selling items from around your home or by starting a small business using this online auction system. This class will teach you how to register on eBay, auctioning, bidding and buying after the auction, selling and creating ads, digital photography, pricing and shipping, and more.

Course Code: MLS 3209 01P
Dates/Days: April, 08, 2010 - May, 13, 2010 (Th)
Course Times: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Elsee Building 110
Instructor: A. Penny
Registration Fee: $67 (includes $2 tech fee)
Book: No book required

Intermediate Dreamweaver CS4 (21hrs)

In this course, you will continue working with the Dreamweaver environment building on the introduction class. This class will work with building tables, forms, cascading style sheets, user interactivity, adding multimedia components, and using validation tools.

Course Code: ITN 3000 03P
Dates/Days: March, 13, 2010 - April, 24, 2010 (Sa)
Course Times: 9:00am - 12:30pm
Location: Elsee Building A110
Instructor: J. Lupella
Registration Fee: $68 (includes $3 tech fee)
Book: TBD
Note: No class on 4/3/10

Intro to Adobe Acrobat (18 hrs)

In this class you will learn about enhanced PDF creation, watermarks, improved collaboration functions, digital signature capability, and how to convert any document or web page into a PDF document and more.

Course Code: OSC 3643 03P
Dates/Days: March, 04, 2010 - April, 01, 2010 (Th)
Course Times: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Elsee Building 110
Instructor: A. Penny
Registration Fee: $67 (includes $2 tech fee)
Book: ISBN: 0-07-226032-7

Medical Billing and Coding (36 hrs)

This 36-hour course will introduce Medical Billing and Coding. This introduction to medical billing and coding will help you explore the world of medical billing and coding by learning coding methods and applying them manually and with the use of billing software.

Course Code: NUR 3235 02P
Dates/Days: January, 05, 2010 - March, 23, 2010 (T)
Course Times: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Elsee Building 110
Instructor: P. Wissinger
Registration Fee: $124 (includes $4 tech fee)
Book: CPT 2008, Professional Edition, ISBN 978-1-57947-940-4; ICD-9-CM 2008, Physician, ISBN 978-1-57947-905-3

MS Office Mini Course (24 hrs)

This 24-hour course is divided into 8 sections, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. The course will be 4 days in length .The first 4 sections will cover MS Word, the remaining 4 sections will be split between MS Excel and MS PowerPoint. The word processing course is designed to give students hands-on training with Microsoft Word. Students will achieve the understanding of how to manage documents with specific time savers such as deletions, moving, and cutting and pasting, how to set margins and tabs, create envelopes and labels from tables, and more. The MS Excel course is a basic introduction to spreadsheets, how to set up a spreadsheet, create basic formulas, editing, and printing. The PowerPoint course is a basic introduction to presentation software. Students will learn about the presentation environment, how to create individual slides, slideshows and insert graphics.

Course Code: CAS 3120 22P
Dates/Days: March, 15, 2010 - March, 24, 2010 (M/W)
Course Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Cleveland Center 004
Instructor: P. Wissinger
Registration Fee: $68 (includes $3 tech fee)
Book: Not required

MS Office Publisher 2003 (21 hrs)

Expand the creativity in the workplace by enhancing the various publications of your job. This course will teach students how to become creative utilizing specific features in Publisher to create various publications for marketing your business.

Course Code: CAS 3060 01P
Dates/Days: March, 17, 2010 - April, 28, 2010 (W)
Course Times: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Kenly Center 003
Instructor: M. Badgett
Registration Fee: $68 (includes $3 tech fee)
Book: ISBN: 1-4239-1382-5, Publisher 2003: Basic, 2nd Ed.

MS Word 2003 with Internet plus Applications –Slow Paced – (18 hrs)

Although introductory in nature, this course is for students with some familiarity with basic computing. It is for students who want to enhance their ability to create, store, and use documents. Techniques to research a subject, to copy and paste from the internet, and to keep up with personal information will be discussed and practiced. The student will work with pictures, videos, and sound clips to create personal documents and presentations. Other software will be discussed including Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.

Course Code: CAS 3120 18P
Dates/Days: February, 24, 2010 - March, 31, 2010 (W)
Course Times: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Benson Center 205
Instructor: J. Foushee
Registration Fee: $67 (includes $2 tech fee)
Book: Not required

Course Code: CAS 3120 17P
Dates/Days: April, 07, 2010 - May, 12, 2010 (W)
Course Times: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Cleveland Center 004
Instructor: J. Foushee
Registration Fee: $67 (includes $2 tech fee)
Book: Not required

OpenOffice Basics (24hrs) Free OpenOffice CD with Class (MS Windows Only)

Don’t have Microsoft Office? This free software is just as effective and compatible with opening documents in Microsoft Office. This course is designed to introduce the student to the basics of OpenOffice, a free downloadable office suite, with an emphasis on Writer and Calc that is comparable and compatible with Microsoft Word (Writer) and Excel (Calc).

Course Code: CAS 3120 15P
Dates/Days: March, 25, 2010 - April, 27, 2010 (Th)
Course Times: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Elsee Building A166
Instructor: D. Brown
Registration Fee: $68 (includes $3 tech fee)
Book: Not required

Photoshop Elements Editing (24 hrs)

Learn to edit and correct digital images or old photographs by learning to repair deficiencies and bring out the best in photo editing. Using the Photoshop Elements 6.0 software, learn how to crop, edit, resize, adjust color and contrast, cloning to remove unwanted items, printing and emailing photos and more. Prerequisites include basic computer skills.

Course Code: CAS 3060 04P
Dates/Days: March, 23, 2010 - May, 11, 2010 (T)
Course Times: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Elsee Building 110
Instructor: A. Penny
Registration Fee: $68 (includes $3 tech fee)
Book: Not required

QuickBooks Pro 2007(24 hrs)

This course is for business owners who want to convert to QuickBooks and for those seeking part time employment operating the system for others. Students learn to navigate through the QuickBooks Accounting System, establish a company, set up a chart of accounts, and decide what information is to be managed by the software. Data lists such as customers, vendors, items to sell, etc., will be discussed, set up, and modified. Includes all data input items and payroll.

Course Code: CAS 3080 02P
Dates/Days: March, 19, 2010 - May, 14, 2010 (F)
Course Times: 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Elsee Building 164
Instructor: G. Parrish
Registration Fee: $68 (includes $3 tech fee)
Book: Not required. A Flash drive is required.

QuickBooks Pro 2008 & MS Excel 2003 (24 hrs)

This course is for business owners who want to convert to QuickBooks and for those seeking part time employment operating the system for others. Students learn to navigate through the QuickBooks Accounting System, establish a company, set up a chart of accounts, and decide what information is to be managed by the software. Data lists such as customers, vendors, items to sell, etc., will be discussed, set up, and modified. Includes all data input items and payroll. MS Excel is also covered, enabling the student to create the major financial and personal worksheets commonly in use.

Course Code: CAS 3120 16P
Dates/Days: March, 02, 2010 - April, 27, 2010 (T)
Course Times: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Workforce Development Center 2012
Instructor: J. Foushee
Registration Fee: $68 (includes $3 tech fee)
Book: Not required. A Flash drive is required.
Note: No class on 3/9/10